Let Me in Your Life (1982)

About this title: In 1982, Marlena Shaw had yet to make her return to straight-ahead jazz singing. R&B was her main focus, but she had gotten away from the sort of outright disco she had embraced in the late '70s. It was that year that the singer recorded Let Me in Your Life, an enjoyable urban-contemporary effort that came out on the short-lived South Bay label. Although this rare LP was ignored by radio and didn't do much commercially, it boasts some noteworthy participants: Johnny Bristol and Webster Lewis are the producers, and the musicians include percussionist Paulinho Da Costa and the late alto ... read more

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